From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Per Jessen Subject: Re: spam control through sendmail Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:03:39 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200310221103.39795.per@computer.org> References: <007301c39863$d38be1d0$04c809c0@himalaya> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <007301c39863$d38be1d0$04c809c0@himalaya> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Sarvesh Singhal Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:14, Sarvesh Singhal wrote: > I have configured internal mail server running sendmail. Since last few > days I have noticed that large no. of spam mails and virus mails are being > relayed using mailto:support@abhikalak.com How can I stop this. Is procmail > recipe suitable or advise about spam-assassin If you are talking about your email-server being used to send spam, look up information on how to close an open relay. If you're fighting spam that you receive, spamassassin is probably a good idea. Or at least worth having a look at. I have little experience with sendmail, but for how to get postfix working with spamassassin, this might help: http://jessen.ch/articles/spamassassin-and-postfix /Per -- regards, Per Jessen, Zurich